I wonder if there is a photographic aspect to some of the pictures. I say this because some of parts of some of the images appear to be out of focus. I think it strange that an artist would draw the out of focus parts of a specimen out of focus.

Actually, the out of focus seems to work and make the crystal jump out of the page, giving the same kind of effect one would see under microscope.

As an aside, her brother is fronts the band "Adam and the Amethysts". In 2006, we took vacation to northern Ontario, passing through Sudbury and out to Thunderbay, stopping in at the Panorama Amethyst Mine. The next year, I found the first Album "Amethyst Amulet" which really summarized a great trip the previous year. They now have another album out, which I am going to get as the first one was quite good.

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